Non-player character

The ribbon you get at field day
Matched in the pocket of every friend

The wave you reach up to reply to
Eyes looking just past your face

The raging customer
“Just caught at a bad time”

Hundreds of HANDs
Past the point of meaning

When your best friend gets the girl
When your neighbor starts the riot

When it’s his back she saw all along

It’s the moment that you know
It never was about you